Mayora & Mayora expands its presence in Honduras
Mayora & Mayora, a leading law firm in Central America that has been in business for more than 55 years, has opened an office in Roatán, bringing the number of its offices in t...
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Mayora & Mayora, a leading law firm in Central America that has been in business for more than 55 years, has opened an office in Roatán, bringing the number of its offices in t...
Central American law firm Consortium Legal has announced the promotion of senior associate, María Fernanda Morales Porres, to partner in the firm’s Guatemala City office.
Panamanian real estate investment trust (REIT) Fideicomiso Inmobiliario Casas Grandes has successfully completed its registration with the Superintendence of the Securities Market ...
Panamanian law firm Lovill has added two partners, Jeannette Bravo and Alejandro Fung.
Guatemala has successfully completed a $1 billion issuance of 6.6%-yield notes due 2036.
Central America law firm BLP Legal has announced the incorporation of Jorge Arenales as a new partner in the firm’s offices in Guatemala City.
Dieter Murmann Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (DMB) has acquired Raytheon Anschuetz Panama, the Panamian subsidiary of Anschütz Group, as part of DMB’s buyout of the entire company.
Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals and Minera Panama, its Panamanian subsidiary, have successfully negotiated with the Panamanian government to renew the mining concess...
Central American law firm BLP has announced the promotion of Alejandro Rojas to partner.
ECIJA El Salvador has strengthened its financial practice with the addition of Esmeralda Torres as a partner, and Nathania García Prieto as chief growth officer.
Panamanian law firm Infante & Pérez Almillano has added Gilberto Arosemena as a partner.
Central American law firm García & Bodán has announced the promotion of Mauricio Orellana as a new partner within its tax practice in El Salvador, bringing the number of partne...
Panamanian law firm Morgan & Morgan Legal has announced the promotion of Ana Carolina Castillo Solis as a partner of the firm’s corporate law department, and Laura Barrios Alta...
Cosmos International, an India-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor has signed an agreement with Nicaraguan authorities to set up a subsidiary of the co...
Aguilar Castillo Love has announced the promotion of Laura Rodríguez Amador to partner, and who is based in the firm’s Costa Rica office.
Panamanian law firm Morgan & Morgan Legal has announced the incorporation of José Rafael Reyes as the new partner in charge of the firm's tax practice.
Eproint, a Latin American and Caribbean regional intellectual property firm, has announced the incorporation of Sylvia Ruiz Hochstetter as a partner in its Guatemala City office.
Global law firm DLA Piper has announced the expansion of its litigation practice in Puerto Rico with the addition of Nereida Melendez-Rivera and Sonia Torres-Pabon as partners.
Global law firm ECIJA has launched an international tax practice for Central America, and which will be led by José Enrique García-Romeu, a tax lawyer with more than 25 years of ex...
Costa Rican law firm Alta Batalla has announced the appointment of Mariela Martinez as a partner and co-leader of the firm’s dispute resolution practice. This move brings the partn...
Global law firm ECIJA has announced the appointment of a new partner in Costa Rica, Arturo Guerrero, the firm’s seventh partner in the country.
Adell & Merizalde, a law firm focused on arbitration, has launched with the opening of offices in Bogotá, Panama City and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
Central American law firm García & Bodan has announced the appointment of Federico Gurdián as a senior partner of the firm, who is based in the firm’s Managua office, and of it...
ASSA Compañia de Seguros, a wholly owned subsidiary of Panamanian group ASSA, has announced that it will acquire the portfolio of life and health policies issued by Puerto Rican in...
Central American law firm BLP has promoted Pamela López Ovando to partner in its Guatemala City office.
Spain-headquartered global law firm ECIJA has announced the launch of a criminal law practice in its Costa Rica offices.
Venezuelan law firm. Araquereyna has announced the incorporation of Juan Carlos Balzán as a partner.
Dutch development bank FMO has provided $60 million in funding, in collaboration with Banco La Hipotecaria in El Salvador and Panama, to provide affordable mortgages in the two Cen...
Four Central American law firms have joined forces to launch Alta Legal, a multidisciplinary regional firm, following three years of negotiations.
María del Pilar López has joined the intellectual property practice of Arias’ Costa Rica office as a partner.
Enel Américas, the Chile-based subsidiary of Italian renewables company Enel Green Power (EGP), has acquired the latter’s Central and South America operations, excluding those in C...
Spanish law firm ECIJA has announced the integration of Guatemalan law firm INTEGRUM, strengthening the former’s presence in the Central American country.
García & Bodán has appointed Cristina Mora Granados as director, who arrives to consolidate the Costa Rican team and to strengthen the intellectual property practice in the reg...
Costa Rica-headquartered law firm Aguilar Castillo Love has appointed Esteban Agüero Guier as managing partner of the firm’s El Salvador office.
The member firms of Andersen Global in Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Uruguay will now operate under the brand Andersen, following the adoption of that brand name by the fi...
Mayora IP, an intellectual property-focused law firm with offices in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, has promoted Edna López to partner in the latter country.
García & Bodán has taken another step to provide the most complete services possible to its clients, with the addition of a banking & finance practice. The new practice wil...
The new partners will strengthen the labor law and immigration departments of the firm.
Three new partner appointments have been made at García & Bodán, involving two of its offices in the region, bolstering the tax, intellectual property and energy and natural re...
On September 13th 2016, BLA started operating in Guatemala City with the incorporation of three partners and 10 associates from local firm Arenales & Skinner-Klée. The establis...
Diaz, Reus & Targ, LLP has announced the opening of a new office in Guatemala, which will be led by lawyers Manuel Arturo Soto and Rodolfo Sosa de León, both of whom possess mo...
Ideas Trademarks and Patents, the one stop shop for Central America and the Caribbean Islands, has opened a strategic office in El Salvador, strengthening its position in the regio...
Following its split from Pan-Central American law firm Arias & Muñoz on November 16th, Muñoz Global, led by José Antonio Muñoz, is considering a tie-up with global law firm Den...